[opensource-dev] Uses of the Lookat target Crosshairs

[Robin Cornelius]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Latif Khalifa <latifer at streamgrid.net> wrote:
> You are reading too much into these "targets". Those are just viewer
> effects that help your viewer position head and the direction of eyes
> of the avatar to the desired location. They have no other use.
>

Yes as Latif says there only purpose is for the head turn/look at
animation so that your avatar will turn its head towards the chat
source for a nice i'm listening to you effect. The LL viewer uses a
small back off so that in busy areas you are not flipping your head
everywhere and i would guess the LL viewer correctly clears the look
at effect after a short time.

Some viewers (i believed introduced by Emerald) seem to make a big
deal out of the look at crosshairs, then if another viewer comes along
that does not correctly clear the lookat effect you get rude IMs
asking why your crosshairs are on me. I've had this before with one of
my viewers, it was not clearing the look at, so in a busy area i
quickly ended up with crosshairs on everyone who had spoken then
started getting rude IMs from emerald users who had the look at cross
hairs turned on and could see where they were pointed.

Robin